South Africa's Dreams : : Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia / / Robert J. Gordon.

In the early sixties, South Africa’s colonial policies in Namibia served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive ‘Grand Apartheid’ infrastructure, including strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. Exposing the role that anthropologists played, this book analyses how...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Text
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Beleaguered Knowledge: The Interwar Irrelevance of Anthropological Expertise
  • 2. Post–World War II Ethnological Dispositions in a Disputed Territory
  • 3. Performing for All the World to See: Bruwer and the Fashioning of Modern Namibia
  • 4. From WHAM to Countermobilization
  • 5. Bringing Bonn Back In
  • Conclusion. “Have We Met the Enemy and (S)He Is Us?” (Pogo)
  • References
  • Index